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***The CMOS battery has been replaced with a new Energizer Lithium Ion battery so it will keep the time/date when the console has been unplugged from power for years to come. The old cooling fan has been replaced with a new one. The motherboard, power supply, heat sink and all other internal surfaces have been carefully cleaned of years of dust buildup. The Blu-ray and DVD lasers have been cleaned along with the drive rollers. The APU has had the old thermal paste cleaned off and new high performance Arctic MX-4 thermal compound applied.*** This original first release model of Sony PlayStation 4 is in great condition inside and out and is reborn with a brand new 2TB Samsung 870 EVO Solid State Drive (SSD) replacing the standard 500GB hard disk drive (HDD). The SSD is much faster, quieter and since there are no moving parts inside there’s less heat produced. Heat is the enemy of premium gaming consoles. Standard HDD’s have moving parts inside which create heat and contribute to overheating. Not so with SSD’s. Why switch to a Solid State Drive in gaming consoles? First off SSD’s are what Sony and Microsoft are switching to in their premium gaming consoles. The most dramatic difference between SSDs and HDDs is the time you’ll spend waiting for games to load. The benefit is clear: SSDs can save you a few minutes of loading time in every play session and hours of waiting in the long term. HDDs use moving parts. Inside an HDD, an actuator arm moves over circular tracks on a spinning platter to retrieve or save data. Because of the arm’s seek time and the platter’s rotational latency, HDDs have slower random read/write times than SSDs. When you’re playing, these delays can mean a longer wait to load up an individual level or assets, as well as momentary hitches and stutters as the game pulls new assets from the disk. All the spinning and seeking takes energy and produces heat which increases the internal temperature of the gaming console. SSDs SSDs have integrated circuits with no moving parts. Rather than using magnetic media, most SSDs use NAND flash memory that enables superior read/write speeds and lower latency than HDDs can achieve. When you upgrade from an HDD to a high performance SSD, the benefits are immediately apparent. Your games launch and levels load faster, and hitches caused by games pulling assets from storage become far less frequent and with 2TB of free space you’ll have plenty of room to load up your favorite gaming titles!!! Do Samsung SSD’s live up to their reputation? This is what PC Magazine says about the Samsung 870 EVO: “Given all else it's known for across the galaxy, Samsung is certainly no stranger to the world of internal solid-state drives (SSDs). The company continues to be a leading force in the industry, producing some of the best SSDs we've reviewed year in and year out. Pairing a few industry-standard features with a few more industry-leading speeds, the Samsung SSD 870 EVO (starts at $39.99; $479.99 for the 4TB version we tested) comes within inches of successfully bridging the gap between SATA and PCI Express drives with stellar results in program and game launching, as well as booting into Windows 10. Whether you need a new boot drive, a massive digital tome to store all your games (looking at you, Call of Duty: Warzone), or just a solid storage option all around, the zip-quick Samsung SSD 870 EVO is a premier option in the world of SATA SSDs, and easily wins our Editors' Choice award as our favorite performance-minded SATA drive.” The condition of this PlayStation 4 is excellent with only some minor scratches to the outside case surface. Please look at the close up images as they’re part of the description. The console buttons are crisp and responsive. Drive operation is smooth. All external I/O ports allow tight connections, none are loose. They’ve all been cleaned with electrical cleaner. The fan is quiet and the unit runs cool. Lastly, the latest version of PS4 firmware (12.0) has been loaded and the unit has been restored to factory defaults ready for a new home! Comes with: -AC power cord -6’ Ultra HD HDMI cable -NON OEM Wireless Controller -USB controller charging/syncing cables